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Re: Org tutorials

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Post by chke »

pbmonster wrote: post #41
thecsw wrote: post #5

Orgmode got me through college, research, and at work, it really is the perfected markup language that can do a lot more than just being a markup language. The extensibility and out of the box export to other formats makes it immediately useful for at least 80% of common tasks. It has ingrained itself so deeply into my muscle memory that I built out a whole website builder [1] and extended the language to support all…

> Orgmode got me through college, research, and at work, it really is the perfected markup language that can do a lot more than just being a markup language. The extensibility and out of the box export to other formats makes it immediately useful for at least 80% of common tasks. With regards to your 80% claim, do you happen to know an extension that works well with pasting images from clipboard? Over the years, my p…

yank-media is built-in https://orgmode.org/manual/Drag-and-Drop-_0026-yank_002dmedi...

Re: Org tutorials

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Post by Scarblac »

Is there are good way to share org files between a laptop and a phone? I want to mark to-dos as done, add new ones and notes etc from both.

Re: Org tutorials

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Post by aquariusDue »

tra3 wrote: post #53
aquariusDue wrote: post #28

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Hyperbole is the weirdest thing ever (in a good way), I can't exactly describe it to people either because it's a monolithic package that is made up of a number of packages (like the one for window control) but once you start using it and adopting it gradually you reach an epiphany. At that point the usefulness of Hyperbole is evident but until then nada, it seems more hassle than it's worth (though there are moments…

Can you share some of your use cases? Been on my radar for a while..

The most straightforward would be opening URLs in various places. Sure, org-mode has something like this built-in and there's the Embark package that even has the embark-dwim command which saves you a keystroke basically, but I still prefer Hyperbole for this bit and it doesn't interfere with Embark either. Same goes for file and folder paths.

There's also more fine grained stuff like opening specific commits on GitHub for example. E.g. throw a gh#rswgnu/hyperbole/5ae3550 and when you M-RET on that "button" it automagically opens it in your browser.

You can insert "buttons" with labels on the fly in a buffer interactively by going through a menu like {C-h h i c} and specifying a label, its type and so on from a list of previously defined button types with their own properties. Those buttons in turn can call any command with preset arguments.

I can go to a file or hunk from the Magit status buffer by pressing the aforementioned Action button (binded to M-RET or a side mouse button too in my case).

I barely scratched the surface really.

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Post by eawgewag »

NoboruWataya wrote: post #14

I hear so many people rave about orgmode on HN, all of them emacs users. This seems obvious since it is an emacs feature after all, but if orgmode is so good, has it not been implemented outside of emacs? Is there a standalone orgmode implementation that non-emacs users should look into?

Orgmode isn't really just a MD equivalent. It's the integration into Emacs and the entire platform that makes it so incredible and powerful. I would love an alternative because as TS developer I don't use Emacs anymore (non VSCode LSP is a nightmare to run) but it just doesn't exist :(

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Post by eawgewag »

pbmonster wrote: post #45
sligor wrote: post #19

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What makes org mode tied to emacs ? I really need to try org mode to understand it. If only I had time...

As a very practical example: You take notes in org-mode, and as you do in many modern note-taking apps, you use copious links between notes. But org-mode is inside Emacs, and Emacs is (can be) also your email client. So your notes can link to emails. Emacs is also your calendar. So your notes can link to events. You can extend this to almost anything if you like Emacs enough. Your notes link to source code files (or…

This is a great comment. My "Aha" moment with org-mode was when I started using it to track my TODOs on ongoing branch. I was able to link bookmarks to actual code from my org mode agenda, jump back and forth between my todo list and the actual code in my repo, add more, add context, etc.

Re: Org tutorials

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Post by DemiGuru »

thyristan wrote: post #31
nurumaik wrote: post #23

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Standalone orgmode implementation is called emacs with org mode. I'm that person that uses emacs solely for orgmode and write code in other editors (vscode/zed/cursor), we also exist

Same. I do use emacs with spacemacs, because that is the only thing that makes emacs viable to me, only to use it solely for orgmode. Everything else happens in vim/nvim or zed.

Have you considered incorporating orgmode plugin with Neovim? [https://github.com/nvim-orgmode]

Re: Org tutorials

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Post by leovingi »

thecsw wrote: post #5

Orgmode got me through college, research, and at work, it really is the perfected markup language that can do a lot more than just being a markup language. The extensibility and out of the box export to other formats makes it immediately useful for at least 80% of common tasks. It has ingrained itself so deeply into my muscle memory that I built out a whole website builder [1] and extended the language to support all…

orgmode is what helped me write my first self-published novella, without having to worry too much about formatting for print. Apart from the initial configuration, it was pretty much plug and play when going from plain text to something I could upload to KDP.
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